Stateless datacenter load-balancing with Beamer Olteanu et al., NSDI'18 We’ve spent the last couple of days looking at datacenter network infrastructure, but we didn’t touch on the topic of load balancing. For a single TCP connection, you want all of the packets to end up at the same destination. Logically, a load balancer (a.k.a. ‘mux’) … Continue reading Stateless datacenter load-balancing with Beamer
Month: May 2018
Andromeda: performance, isolation, and velocity at scale in cloud network virtualization
Andromeda: performance, isolation, and velocity at scale in cloud network virtualization Dalton et al., NSDI'18 Yesterday we took a look at the Microsoft Azure networking stack, today it’s the turn of the Google Cloud Platform. (It’s a very handy coincidence to have two such experience and system design report papers appearing side by side so … Continue reading Andromeda: performance, isolation, and velocity at scale in cloud network virtualization
Azure accelerated networking: SmartNICs in the public cloud
Azure accelerated networking: SmartNICs in the public cloud Firestone et al., NSDI'18 We’re still on the ‘beyond CPUs’ theme today, with a great paper from Microsoft detailing their use of FPGAs to accelerate networking in Azure. Microsoft have been doing this since 2015, and hence this paper also serves as a wonderful experience report documenting … Continue reading Azure accelerated networking: SmartNICs in the public cloud
the morning paper 